[hackerspaces] remote membership

[Tarek Ahmed]

I agree with Arclight and I think our membership model at Cairo Hackerspace
can categorize these members, if that is what you are looking for.

At the Cairo Hackerspace we made three memberships that anyone can choose
from or join all three. One of these memberships could fit the people you
are talking about. Basically anyone who pays money, whether its a donation
or paying for any of our non profit services,  physical or virtual, is a
member X. (We don't call them "X members"  but use the X as a placeholder
for whatever category name you choose for this type of membership.

Keys are only handed over to trusted people. Another solution is that
members can volunteer to open for other members without keys at specific
times, you can read about it in the the link below.

You can read a summary of our model. Feel free to ask questions, suggest
changes or give other opinions.
http://www.cairohackerspace.org/post/159642257252/cmm

Tarek


On Jul 23, 2017 5:02 PM, "Pavel Ruzicka" <ruza at ruza.eu> wrote:

I also agree with that. Handing out keys of our hackerspace to an
unknown person is absolutely not acceptable.

My question was if any hackerspace found a model of a membership without
physical presence.

ruza

On 07/23/2017 10:56 PM, Joshua Pritt wrote:
> I agree with Arclight.  You can accept donations from anyone and add
> them to the mailing list, give them access to the wiki, etc. just not a
> key to the place.  You gotta hang out a few times to make sure we can
> all be excellent to each other.
>
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Arclight <arclight at gmail.com
> <mailto:arclight at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's fairly straightforward:  You can accept members from anywhere.
>     They can support you from Antarctica with donations if they want and
>     be on the mailing list/etc.
>
>     Key holder status is different. We treat our space like a home.  You
>     have to physically be here and get to know us before we decide if we
>     would give you a key to our home.
>
>     Arclight
>     23b Shop
>
>     On Jul 23, 2017 1:37 PM, "Pavel Ruzicka" <ruza at ruza.eu
>     <mailto:ruza at ruza.eu>> wrote:
>
>         Hello.
>
>         Does any hackerspace accept something like remote membership?
>
>         In our hackespace we have a rule that anybody who wants to
>         become a full
>         member (with all the rights like free access to a hackerspace)
>         has to
>         visit us personally few times to check compatibility between
>         existing
>         member community a and an applicant. If everything goes OK an
>         applicant
>         is accepted.
>
>         We are receiving membership requests from people all over the
>         globe we
>         have never seen and probably will never see.
>
>         How do you handle such request? Do you have any special type of
>         membership for them?
>
>         ruza
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